If some consumers are liquidity-constrained, aggregate consumption should be `excessively sensitive' to credit conditions as well as to income. Moreover, the `excess sensitivity' may vary over time. Using data for the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Japan and France, we find a...

If some consumers are liquidity-constrained, aggregate consumption should be ‘excessively sensitive’ to credit conditions as well as to income. Moreover, the ‘excess sensitivity’ may vary over time. Using data for Canada, France, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States, we find a...

Motivated by the Chinese experience, we analyze a semi-open economy where the central bank has access to international capital markets, but the private sector has not. This enables the central bank to choose an interest rate different from the international rate. We examine the optimal policy of...

In this paper, we consider an alternative perspective to China's exchange rate policy. We study a semi-open economy where the private sector has no access to international capital markets but the central bank has full access. Moreover, we assume limited financial development generating a large...

Nominal rigidities due to menu costs have become a standard element in closed economy macroeconomic modeling. The ''New Open Economy Macroeconomics'' literature has investigated the implications of nominal rigidities in an open economy context and found that the currency in which prices are set...